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Child abuse material ‘systemic’ on Elon Musk’s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned

Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk’s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it […]

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Mistral AI Releases Mistral Small 4: A 119B-Parameter MoE Model that Unifies Instruct, Reasoning, and Multimodal Workloads

Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 4, a new model in the Mistral Small family designed to consolidate several previously separate capabilities into a single deployment target. Mistral team describes Small 4 as its first model to combine the roles associated with Mistral Small for instruction following, Magistral for reasoning, Pixtral for multimodal understanding, and

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Teenage girls sue Musk’s xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material

Lawuit details how sexualised AI-generated images were produced and distributed without girls’ knowledgeA group of three teenage girls, two of whom are minors, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company alleging that its Grok image generator used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material. The class-action

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A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci-fi movie?It sounds like the opening of a sci-fi film, but US scientists recently uploaded a

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‘Like a DVD in the present tense’: are we ready for film distribution via USB drives?

As big tech continues to dominate the film industry, Video StoreAge is a uniquely crafted company that works with film-makers to sell independent films on USB drivesThe streaming-skeptical cinephile faces a dilemma in 2026, especially when it comes to watching movies at home. Increasingly, movies are available via rentals that funnel money to mega-corporations including

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‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devicesThe video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to make

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Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tipsGoogle has dropped a new artificial intelligence search feature that gave users crowdsourced health advice from amateurs around the world.The company had said its launch of “What People Suggest”, which provided tips from strangers, showed “the potential of AI to

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The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winnerIt was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, the

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: its huge screen blocks shoulder surfers from spying on you

Latest Android superphone packs great cameras, fast chips, long battery, a stylus and first-of-its-kind privacy displaySamsung’s latest Ultra superphone promises to keep shoulder surfers out of your business with a first-of-its-kind privacy display built into its huge 6.9in screen.The Galaxy S26 Ultra is Samsung’s top-of-the-line phone costing £1,279 (€1,449/$1,299/A$2,199) and is one of the most

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Moonshot AI Releases 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 to Replace Fixed Residual Mixing with Depth-Wise Attention for Better Scaling in Transformers

Residual connections are one of the least questioned parts of modern Transformer design. In PreNorm architectures, each layer adds its output back into a running hidden state, which keeps optimization stable and allows deep models to train. Moonshot AI researchers argue that this standard mechanism also introduces a structural problem: all prior layer outputs are

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